The relationship of descriptions to nature in Coleridge's poetryColeridge, like many other Romantic writers of his time such as Asworth, demonstrated through his works a great interest in nature . Instead of following 18th-century philosophy that drew the line between man and nature, Coleridge developed a passionate view of the idea that there is only "one." He believed that nature was ""the eternal language that God speaks"", thus linking humans, nature, and the spiritual together. In his poetry, Coleridge used his philosophy to explore larger issues through the careful observation of images and themes relating to the natural world. Coleridge uses paradoxes to demonstrate the balance found in the ever-conflicting natural world. For example, in the "Rimes of the Ancient Mariner", the statement: ''water, water everywhere,/ nor any drop to drink'' is demonstrative of this paradoxical irony. Like the ''beauty and happiness'' of the "slimy things" that the sailor notices while at sea. There is also a double meaning in the description of the sailor's soul, which includes the ambiguous word agony, as it can mean mental pain and pleasure this double meaning symbolizes the fact that balance in nature is at the heart of the natural world, just as for him it is the soul of the sailor. In both imagery and style, these contrasts are equally balanced. Furthermore, Coleridge used his technique to explore the timelessness, or eternity, found in nature, in the poem Kubla Khan, he hints at this with adjectives such as "measureless", in reference to caves, and "ancient", in reference to forests, deliberately. present in the first verse to show the importance they hold. The mysterious names he employs, such as Kubla Khan and Xanadu, suggest that what is man-made is evanescent, unlike the eternity of nature. To strengthen this feeling and emphasize timelessness, he chose to keep the natural subjects of the poem undefined: "green hills", "ice caves". Additionally, Kubla Khan has a sort of mesmerizing rhythm, particularly noted in the first verse. The poem is given a hard but steady rhythm with the alliteration of the first five lines: "Kubla Khan", "dome decree", and "sunless sea". Coleridge weaves short exclamations ("but oh!", "a wild place!") and exaggeratedly long ones ("as holy and enchanted as ever under a waning moon was haunted by a woman crying for her demon") lover!'' ) reinforces the sensation of flow that is linked to time that ''ticks'' irregularly, creating a sense of timelessness.